Join ISWA and eco-spirituality for a quiet, contemplative, reflective spring walk in Kings Park on Sat Nov 15th from 8:15-11am.
You are warmly invited to a half-day Ignatian reflection facilitated by Frances Tilly - from Jesuit and Ignatian Spirituality Australia (JISA) Sydney.
The theme of the morning will be: How does God call me by my name, how will I respond?
Celebrating 800 years of St Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures
In 1255, St Francis of Assisi composed his “Canticle of the Creatures”, one of the great hymns to come down to us from medieval times.
This reflection day celebrates the Canticles remarkable mystical insights concerning God’s creation, and its ecological sensibilities so relevant to today.
We believe in the divine gift of love but the challenge is to incarnate this love. Drawing on both the last encyclical from Pope Francis ‘Delixit nos’ – ‘He Loved Us First’ and the practical advice of Dr Gary Chapman in his series ‘Languages of Love’, Fr Iain Radvan SJ will facilitate prayer, reflection and discussion on how we can live the love that originates from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The world is in crisis, many of the causes of which are fundamentally spiritual.
What we see and hear does not provide a coherent inspiring life-giving story inviting us into deeper relationships with God, others and the natural world.
Drawing on the wisdom of our Christian tradition expressed in the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Hildegard of Bingen, Beatrice Bruteau, Elizabeth Johnson and others, John Auer will explore an exciting and inspiring new story – a story expressive of God’s presence in the universe as the creative, transformative, empowering energy of Love.
A morning of reflection, deep listening and sharing our experience of and desires for church.
Have you heard of synodality but don’t really understand what that means for you or your parish? Led by members of Ignatian Spirituality WA and the Christian Life Community, the morning will involve deep listening practices and shared conversations in the Spirit around our experience of church and our longings for it.
Join the Eco-spirituality group and Ignatian Spirituality WA for a gentle contemplative walk in Bold Park. From 8:45 for 9am start till 11:30am. Starting at the Camel Lake Carpark, two walks will be offered - a 2km loop walk and a 3.5km walk. The 2km walk has a gentle slope for about 300m but otherwise is fairly flat. The 3.5km walk has some steeper sections. The surface of the path is a limestone base which is generally well maintained.
Father Eamonn Conway is a priest of the archdiocese of Tuam (Ireland) and Inaugural Professor of Integral Human Development University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA). He previously served as Head of Theology & Religious Studies at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland’s largest teacher education college, for twenty-three years.. He is also involved in the synodal renewal process in the Catholic Church and served as an expert adviser to the 16th Synod of Bishops 2021-2024 appointed by Pope Francis. The title of this presentation is: “Changing to be Faithful: why synodality is the only way forward for the Church “which is the subject of Eamonn’ next book to be published in August 2025.
How could silence possibly create community? What do we mean by Community?
We’ll explore these questions especially this seemingly paradoxical claim by John Main OSB to see why this connection between silence and community is so important to us as humans as well as for the future of our home - Planet Earth.
Ignatian spirituality WA and Christian Life Community WA invite you to an Annual tree Planting Day at Gabbiljee Reserve in Bullcreek.
“That people may learn to respect Creation and care for it as a gift from God” Pope Francis
A gentle, contemplative weekend of silent walking, reflection and sharing. The walk will be in the hills around Mundaring but it is not a walk for fitness, rather a walk to slow down and allow oneself to be immersed in and present to Nature around you and to your own sense of the sacred. It is an opportunity to slow down and deepen your relationship with yourself and the Divine.
Join the eco-spirituality group and Ignatian Spirituality WA for a reflective walk at the picturesque Tomato Lake, 27 Oats St, Kewdale. on April 12th, from 9.30 AM to 12.00 PM, as we embrace the serene beauty of the Djeran season.
Tomato Lake, a hidden gem nestled in the heart of the city, offers a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Surrounded by lush greenery and a diverse array of flora and fauna, the lake provides a perfect backdrop for a peaceful walk. The reflective walk is designed to promote mindfulness and a deeper connection with God and nature. Psalms 24:1: "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it."
Pilgrims on a hope filled Journey… living spirituality in Everyday life. Br Terry Casey CFC will link his lived experience of Spirituality with the CLC National Priorities discerned in July 2024.
Priority 1: Forming our members and sharing Ignatian Spirituality
Priority 2: Caring for God’s Creation
Priority 3: Walking with the excluded
This retreat offers an opportunity to take some time away from the distractions and busyness of daily life. It will create space for personal spiritual growth, enabling a deepening of your faith/ spiritual journey in an atmosphere of guided silence, respectful sharing and individual reflection. Allowing God (or your own sense of the Divine) to speak to your longings and deepest desires.
Jesuit priest, Fr Ramesh will be offering sessions of contemplative challenge with time for group discussion, journaling, prayer and walking in silence. There will also be plenty of time for laughter!
Come and join the Christian Life Community work to clean up Australia
Date and time: Sunday 2nd March 2025 9:30am - 11:00am
Location: 24 GARLAND ST, VICTORIA PARK WA 6100
Landmark: Park along Garland St in Mc Callum Park.
We propose to clean up in three spots. Along the river front, in the Park and on Heirisson Island.
We will meet at 9.30 am along Garland St, Mc Callum Park which is accessed off Canning Hwy, Victoria Park
Join the Eco-spirituality group and Ignatian Spirituality WA for a silent reflective walk in Kings Park. There will be 2 options for walking: one easier and the other more challenging. However, the emphasis is always on silence and contemplative walking.
The world is in crisis, many of the causes of which are fundamentally spiritual. What we see and hear does not provide a coherent inspiring life-giving story inviting us into deeper relationships with God, others and the natural world. We need a new story.
Ignatian Spirituality and Christian Life Community WA offer an ignatian reflective walk in nature at Perry Lakes Reserve in Mt Claremont for the Season of Creation. This will take place on Sunday October 13th 2024 from 10-12pm.
Pope Francis: “ In our reflection on the environment we must make central the connection between the cry of the poor and the cry of the Earth”
Sr Frances McGuire is a Josephite sister who is both a wonderful retreat leader but also has lived with the poor and marginalised in places like northern Australia and Peru. She is well placed to lead this retreat having experienced first hand the devastation of poverty, marginalisation and damage to our common home.
In their vibrant colours, rock and stone are radiant bearers of Earth’s Story. In company with Teilhard de Chardin, we will explore the divine plan for our planet and all creation. "All things were created through Christ and for him, and in him all things hold together." Col 1.15-20
Join the eco-spirituality group on another Ignatian reflective walk this time at the beautiful and easily accessible Kent St Weir in Cannington. this easy, flat 4km walk will be done with some time for prayer, reflection and silent walking.
Come on an Ignatian Reflection walk on the Banks of the Canning River at Salter Point. Slow walking, Pausing, Reflecting and sharing are all part of this time.
Ignatian Spirituality focuses on seeing God in all of Creation. Pope Francis urges us to be caring of our common home, planet Earth - by recovering our connection with the natural world. Our new story reminds us of God as Trinitarian relational Being, a God whose loving presence is expressed in and through all living beings; which is called eco-spirituality. John Auer will lead us through the current understanding and the evolving ideas about this exciting new story, which begins at the first moment of creation.
How does Ignatian Spirituality, with its gifts of discernment and deep listening, inform our understanding of Synodality - walking together - a new model for Church?
Dr Sandie Cornish is well placed and informed and will help us navigate some of the issues and language around Synodality and explain what Pope Francis is seeking to introduce into the way of being Church in the future.
Walking in silence, in Nature, allows us to connect deeply with creation, ourselves and others. We invite you to join us in this contemplative walking style.
Start 2023 with clarity with the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius to work through a 30-week period at any time that suits you.
For those people who are focused on prayer and who desire to deepen their relationship with God, one way of making the Exercises is through the 19th Annotation, also known as The Retreat in Daily Life.
One of the advantages of the Retreat in Daily Life is that the person is able to live and work in their own environment and yet still pray and make the Retreat over a period of approximately 30+ weeks.
Would you like to experience Ignatian Prayer? What is it all about? Haven’t time or ability to commit to the full retreat listed on the website? Then come along and experience a taster of Ignatian Spiritual Exercises with Fr Tony.
Venue: St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth
Date/Time: Thursday 1st June 6pm-7:30pm
or Friday 2nd June 12:40-2:10pm (after the midday mass)
Please RSVP by 25th May 2023 to : event.cathedral@perthcatholic.org.au stating your name, email address and contact number.
Venue: John XXIII College, Mooro Drive, Mount Claremont WA 6010
Date/TIme: Thursday 25th May 6:30-8:00pm
or Sunday 11th June 5:00pm-6:30pm
Please RSVP by 17th May 2023 by booking at: Ignatian Spirituality for Busy People Tickets, John XXIII College, Mount Claremont | TryBooking Australia
About the facilitator
Fr Tony Lusvardi SJ
Fr Tony grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA). Before entering the Society, he studied literature and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) and spent two years teaching English for the US Peace Corps in Kazakhstan. His most important pastoral experience in formation was administering three small parishes on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota during regency. For the past six years, he has been completing his first license and doctorate in sacramental theology at Sant’ Anselmo in Rome. He has just begun teaching sacramental theology at the Gregorian. He is grateful to have arrived in Australia (at last!) and for the welcome he has received.
Haven’t got time for a retreat but need one anyway? This is for you… A retreat in your daily life which gives you the tools to look at your decisions and your time through an ignatian lense. Ignatian Spirituality is designed for busy people who want to make God centered decisions.
Haven’t got time for a retreat but need one anyway? This is for you… A retreat in your daily life which gives you the tools to look at your decisions and your time through an ignatian lense. Ignatian Spirituality is designed for busy people who want to make God centered decisions.
CLC WA presents its March Gathering 2023 to celebrate World CLC Day. This year we are offering a wonderful speaker in Sue Martin who will be speaking on “Growing in our Care of Creation”.
Venue: Holy Rosary Parish Hall, 46 Tyrell St, Nedlands, WA 6009
Speaker: Sue Martin - please see flyer for Bio
RSVP: Lyn Bloom - please see Flyer below
